Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think it is time in this country to quit making national heroes out of those who steal secrets and publish them in newspapers." The ex-P.O.W.s rose and cheered for a full minute...
Perot, the son of an East Texas cotton and cattle trader, apparently genuinely believes that philosophy. In 1962 he quit a safe job as an IBM computer salesman to work for Blue Cross-Blue Shield and to start his own computer software company, Electronic Data Systems. By 1969 it had grown enough to make Perot a billionaire at the age of 39. That left little danger; so Perot, who might be described as a mixture of Billy Graham and Don Quixote, has sallied forth to rescue Wall Street from the dragons plaguing it. In 1970 he heeded pleas from John...
...Washington and a great many people elsewhere in the nation were openly debating the question of whether President Nixon should or would quit the White House. Just weeks ago, when Nixon was organizing his "new American revolution" after one of the greatest election victories in U.S. history, the question would have sounded preposterous. Even now, the prospect evoked such a sense of national trauma that most Americans of both parties devoutly wanted to avoid it. But so widespread was the doubt about Nixon's involvement in Watergate, so widespread the skepticism about the repeated White House denials, that...
...recent news conference, Conservative Television Commentator William F. Buckley Jr. sonorously explained why he had successfully sued his union, AFTRA, for the right to appear on television even though he chose to quit the labor group. "Paying dues," he asserted, "is a barrier to free speech...
Robert B. Watson, director of Athletics, offered the spot to Essick yesterday afternoon by phone. His appointment marks the end of a three-week search initiated when former head coach Don Gambril quit his job for a position as the coach at the University of Alabama...